The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Suffolk region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 23 36 32
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -4
Contract jobs citing System Testing 6 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 3.774% 1.190% 1.604%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.941% 1.875% 2.542%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £470 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.50% +14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
101 160 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 63.52% 63.49% 63.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 94 53
Average daily rate £365 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.30% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 8
Average hourly rate £15.16 £29.50 £17.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.61% +67.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.50 £13.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
System Testing
East of England

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Suffolk System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing System Testing across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Suffolk region.

Suffolk System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing System Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited System Testing.

1 12 (42.86%) UML
2 11 (39.29%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (39.29%) Migration
3 9 (32.14%) Test Scripting
4 7 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 7 (25.00%) Use Case
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Finance
6 5 (17.86%) Degree
7 4 (14.29%) MS Office
7 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
7 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
9 2 (7.143%) German Language
9 2 (7.143%) Integration Testing
9 2 (7.143%) GAP Analysis
10 1 (3.571%) Data Management
10 1 (3.571%) HP
10 1 (3.571%) MySQL
10 1 (3.571%) QA
10 1 (3.571%) Business Analysis
10 1 (3.571%) HP Quality Center

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing System Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Office
1 4 (14.29%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.571%) MySQL
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) German Language
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Analyst
2 27 (96.43%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) UML Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) QA Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) UML
2 11 (39.29%) Migration
3 9 (32.14%) Test Scripting
4 7 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 7 (25.00%) Use Case
5 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (10.71%) Data Analysis
7 2 (7.143%) Integration Testing
7 2 (7.143%) GAP Analysis
8 1 (3.571%) Data Management
8 1 (3.571%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (3.571%) HP